Star heroine Samantha has scored a big blockbuster for the first time with the female-oriented film Oh Baby. The film has collected more than Rs. 40 crores at the box office and proved that stamina of Samantha’s stardom. Currently, the actress is boosted up to do many such movies.

Meanwhile, Telangana’s governor ESL Narasimhan has watched the movie last night along with his family members. The makers of Oh Baby organized a special screening to Narasimhan at Ramanaidu Studios. The governor enjoyed the film throughout and appreciated the efforts of the whole team.

Director Nandini Reddy was also present at the screening. The whole team members were elated by the appreciation of the governor. Oh Baby features Naga Shaurya, Teja, Rajendra Prasad and Rao Ramesh in the other prominent roles. Mickey J Meyer has composed the music for it.

Movie Name	Oh Baby
Cast	Samantha Akkineni, Naga Sourya, Rajendra Prasad, Lakshmi
Director	Nandini Reddy
Music Director	Mickey J Meyer

Remaking a movie from another language is a common trend in every film industry even in this era of OTT ruling the roost. Producers are in a hunt of such movies which have universal appeal or emotional content, literally. Oopiri which stars Nagarjuna is a remake of “The Intouchables” a French movie and recently released “Bharat” starring Salman Khan is also a remake of a Korean movie “An Ode to My Father”. The audience has every facility to watch the movie simply on the OTT platform but the producers might be aiming to reach that audience who don’t have that OTT facility. Samantha Akkineni and director Nandini Reddy came together for a film for Suresh Productions named ” Oh Baby” which is a remake of Korean film “Miss Granny”. This movie is releasing into theatres today. Let’s see how it works on us.

 

Stoy

Baby (Lakshmi) is an old lady who has all the so-called bad qualities of being old. She runs a college canteen along with Chanti (Rajendra Prasad). As an old lady, her way of caring is different and her daughter in law is affected very much mentally and health wise due to the naggings of Baby. She gets admitted into a hospital due to a mild heart stroke. The doctor advises the family to join Baby in an old age home for the betterment of her daughter in law which hurts the baby as her granddaughter yells at her telling this. She goes from there to her canteen and she gets a call from her grandson inviting her to his musical performance and it changes the life of Baby. How her life changes?

Cast and performance

Lakshmi has done a great job in the role of Baby. Her character is the crux for the movie to workout and she bettered her role. Samantha Akkineni has done a terrific job in her role. She is fantastic in every aspect and dubbing of Chinmayi to her role helped. Rajendra Prasad is superb. Rao Ramesh once again proved himself in the emotional sequence. Naga Shaurya is nice. Teja, Pragathi, Snigdha, RJ Hemanth are good. All other actors have done a good job in their roles.

Writing Department

The story of Oh Baby is different conceptually and the screenplay is good. The dialogues of the film are written well.

Technical departments

The songs composed by Mickey J Meyer are nice. He put in a great effort in composing background score. Richard Prasad has done fine work in terms of cinematography. The editing of the film could have been better. The production values are grand.

Highlights

-> Samantha Akkineni
-> Comedy sequences
-> Concept of the film

Minus

-> Too much of emotional scenes
-> Routine approach to a unique concept

Verdict

Oh Baby is a story that tells the life of older people in the family and their innate feelings. The film has a really unique concept which stands out from the rest of Telugu films. With such a concept in hand, director Nandini Reddy and writer Lakshmi Bhupala approached it in a very routine way like every other Telugu film with loud emotions and summarised dialogues. Even the revelation of new things is done so routine. This is a disappointing aspect of the film. The positives include Samantha Akkineni and her character which generates good humor with the body language and dialect. The emotional scenes are good but gone overboard may be to entice the family audience. The second half seemed a bit longer, maybe because of the conclusions. The film is not what the trailers or promos have promised and to summarise, Oh, baby is a film aimed for the family audience with a fantastic performance of Samantha Akkineni with a few surprises.

Niharika Konidela, the only actress from Mega family made her debut with the film Oka Manasu. The film failed at the box-office but the performances of the lead actors impressed everyone. The critics lauded the on-screen chemistry of the lead pair. Later on, there were a lot of media reports that Shaurya is in relationship with Niharika.

A lot of times, both the actors reacted to these rumors to give clarity that the news reports are false. Still, the reports continue to exist. Now, Shaurya has once again responded to the rumors.

In a recent media interaction, Shaurya made it clear that he is not dating Niharika. “My best friends are also asking me about the same and I am feeling uncomfortable about the same. For once and all, I am confirming that I am not in a relationship with Niharika or with anyone for that matter.” said the actor.